Broadway Box Office Slips 15% To $29M As Rush Of Shows Open Near End Of Season
deadline.comBroadway box office was down 15% last week, with even some of the biggest hit shows reporting slips for the week ending May 1.
In all, the 36 shows grossed $29,072,410.Likely reflecting a slimming down of spring break and Easter tourist business, attendance was off by 10% last week from the previous week, coming in at 241,500.
That number suggests that only 75% of available seats were filled, a significantly lower figure than the 85%+ numbers reported earlier this spring.Also impacting receipts was the large number of opening nights, with press comps and other freebies eating into the figures at The Skin of Our Teeth, A Strange Loop, POTUS, Mr.
Saturday Night and Macbeth. The Tony Award eligibility cut-off date is May 4.The average ticket price for the roster was down as well, to $120 from the previous week’s $128.Some productions, of course, took steeper drops than others: Beetlejuice was down by more than $492,698 from the previous week, settling in at $875,739 for the week, with attendance at 57% of capacity.
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